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56Visual Intelligence in PaintingReview of Metaphysics 59 (2): 333-354. 2005.Philosophers have long agreed that thinking is expressed in the use of language, that we “think in the medium of words.” It is also true, however, that we think in the medium of pictures, and it is likely that these two ways of thinking are interrelated; certainly, we could not think in pictures if we did not have words, and perhaps we could not use words, in principle, unless we were also engaged in some sort of picturing, at least in our imagination. An ideographic language like Chinese would …Read more
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44The Logic of Parts and Wholes in Husserl's InvestigationsIn Jitendranath Mohanty (ed.), Readings on Edmund Husserl's Logical investigations, M. Nijhoff. pp. 94--111. 1977.
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24ReferringReview of Metaphysics 42 (1). 1988.WHEN WORDS APPEAR THEY INTERRUPT the dense continuity of things. Pictures do so as well, but in a different way. The things surrounding me form a dense continuum: my attention can move from one thing to another without leaving what is immediately there. I can go from the table to the rug to the chair to the lamp and to the wall. But if at some point I come to a picture, this plain sequence is broken, and although it may quickly be picked up again, it is interrupted by the picture. When I hit the…Read more
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182Husserl’s Discovery of Philosophical DiscourseHusserl Studies 24 (3): 167-175. 2008.Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology is his first systematic attempt to show how phenomenology differs from natural science and in particular psychology. He does this by the phenomenological reduction. One of his achievements is to show that the formal structures of intentionality are more akin to logic than to psychology. I claim that Husserl’s argument can be made more intuitive if we consider phenomenology to be the study of truth rather than knowledge, and if we see the reduction as primarily a m…Read more
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29Parts and Moments (review)Review of Metaphysics 38 (1): 140-142. 1984.This book explores a dimension in Husserl's thought that is, unfortunately, usually neglected, the analysis of formal structures in thinking. It examines such topics as formal ontology, formal logic, logic and mathematics, set theory, and, most of all, the theme of parts and wholes. Moreover the book does not just comment on Husserl's treatment of these topics; it pursues them as philosophical issues, shows how Husserl's position can be compared with that of other thinkers, and traces some of th…Read more
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45Dieter Lohmar, Edmund husserls 'formale und transzendentale logik'Husserl Studies 18 (3): 233-243. 2002.
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102Matter, elements and substance in AristotleJournal of the History of Philosophy 8 (3): 263-288. 1970.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |